Quote:Its a bit misleading given how much big play our defense was giving up early in the season. If we take the average yardage our team gave up after Winston Guy was cut and approx. it for a 16 game season, then our total would be 5502, just above the Patriots. Of course, this is not a perfect stat, since we played some bad offenses after Guy was cut. Still, the point stands. This defense played better once it cut down on the big mistakes, of which Guy was the #1 culprit of.

 

With Winston Guy:

 

(Passing) 1295 yards in four games for an average of 323 YPG which would be 43 more YPG than Atlanta who owns the worst allowed at 280 YPG.

 

(Rushing) 522 yards in four games for an average of 130 YPG which would only put us one spot behind where we finished. 

 

(Total) 1817 yards in four games for an average of 454 YPG which would put us at 32nd and 56 YPG behind Atlanta.

 

Without Winston Guy:

 

(Passing) 2604 yards in 12 games for an average of 216 YPG which would have ranked 5th overall.

 

(Rushing) 1511 yards in 12 games for an average of 125 YPG and we wouldn't have changed our ranking.

 

(Total) 4115 yards in 12 games for an average of 342 YPG which would have put us at 9th 11th overall.

 

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A difference of 112 YPG without Guy versus when we did. I'm sure we could read statistics in a thousand different ways, but it's difficult to argue with the huge difference in this defense in the last 12 games compared to the first 4 games. I should note that I did the math quickly, so the numbers could potentially be off slightly. 

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